Definitions
dig with or as if with a shovel
Word origin
From Middle English schovele, schovel, showell, shole (> English dialectal shoul, shool), from Old English scofl (“shovel”), from Proto-Germanic *skuflō, *skūflō (“shovel”), equivalent to shove + -el (instrumental/agent suffix).
Used in a sentence
“It was said that such train crews kept a spare shovel on board because, on numerous occasions, the beginner had not only zealously thrown coal into the firebox but had let the shovel go as well.”
“No one seems to like the offer, and the umpire is just coming down, when a queer old hat, something like a doctor of divinity's shovel, is chucked on to the stage […]”
“The workers were shovelling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.”
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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Spade”6 letters
02“Digging tool”6 letters
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